Quotes

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

Kahlil Gibran

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

Images create desire. You will want what you imagine.

J.G. Glallinore

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatna Ghandhi

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Emerson

It’s motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Jean de la Bruyere

Your work is to discover your work and then with all you heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

We know what we are, not what we may become.

Shakespeare

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

Hung Tzu-ch eng

No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

N. Sri Ram

Following the course of least resistance makes for crooked rivers and crooked men.

Lanny Henninger

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere … we must disappear.

Bhai Sahib

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.

George Arundale

Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need.

N. Sri Ram

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. … It takes just a second to say ‘love’. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.

Madame Blavatsky

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it’s from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

L.W. Rogers

The most damaging phrase in the language is: It’s always been done that way.

Grace Murray Hopper

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Ramana Maharshi

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few people near us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace. Weapons themselves do not act. They have not come out of the blue. Man has made them. But even given those weapons, those terrible weapons, they cannot act by themselves. As long as they are left alone in storage they cannot do any harm. A human being must use them. Someone must push the button. Satan, the evil powers, cannot push that button. Human beings must do it.

The Dalai Lama

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Kahlil Gibran